Three Identical Strangers

ANDY’S RATING: ★★★★★ In cinemas on Friday

“THIS is the where the story starts to get funky”, says one of the talking heads half-way through this jaw-dropping documentary.

She isn’t talking about the disco scene in early 80s New York, where this stranger-thanfiction true story played out – she’s warning about a dark twist that is about to turn the story on its head.

The film begins with the heartwarming story of triplets who were separated at birth, adopted by very different families and reunited when they were 19.

It saw Edward Galland, David Kellman and Robert Shafran become overnight celebrities.

They discovered they had led eerily similar lives and it seemed the age-old question of nature versus nurture had finally been answered.

But their adoptive parents were less than enthralled. They wanted to know why the agency hadn’t told them about the other two boys.

And when identical twins who were also separated by the same agency find each other, this joyful reunion turns into a twisted tale of betrayal and corruption.

Like the best documentaries, this riveting film grows more interesting the funkier it gets.